Before becoming defense minister in June but well into the Fukushima meltdown disaster, Satoshi Morimoto said he viewed the nation’s nuclear power plants as a deterrent against foreign attack, apparently because they made neighboring countries believe Japan could produce atomic weapons quickly if it wanted to, Kyodo News learned Wednesday.
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